condemn
- Verb. (transitive) To confer some sort of eternal divine punishment upon.
- Verb. (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
- Verb. (transitive) To scold sharply; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
- Verb. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
- Verb. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
- Verb. (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
- Verb. (transitive, legal) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit for service.
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